Books I've read (possible spoilers - read at your own risk)

IndigoMont11

I purchased a download of "Gone Girl" and a couple others, but then decided to read the library books first.  I read "The Help" in just under 2 days - could not put it down.  I loved the movie and now I can see that it pretty much followed the book - just that the sequence of some of the incidents was a little bit different.  I especially was interested in the author's story at the end, how she was inspired by the maid who worked with her family, and her own childhood.

I bought "King Peggy" for my Nook and haven't been able to get into it either.  I didn't know it could be returned - I have a feeling I might have waited too long, but it's worth asking!

kltb04

The Help was awesome!  I need to see what DH has avaialable - he had downloaded a bunch for me but they aren't all in the correct format, etc...

I know that when you purchase for Kindle, it tells you right after purchase that if you purchased by mistake, you can return it, but I didn't know that once you had it on your device for awhile, that you could still return it.  I guess if people abuse the system they would revoke their rights to return?  Or maybe Amazon is so big, they don't care.

kltb04

Ok, I went back to my kindle acct on amazon and found that the only ones eligible for refund were those in the last week or so - so I guess there is a time limit.

IndigoMont11

There probably is for the Nook too; but I'll still check.

kltb04

Read one all in one day yesterday - reading and the Olympics all in one:  Off Balance by Dominique Monaceau (sp?) from 1996 Olympics.  Does not paint Bela Kerolyi in a good light.

IndigoMont11

She's the one who legally emancipated herself from her parents after the Olympics, right?  It sounded like she had a terrible time. 

kltb04

Yep - she eventually reconciled with them before her father died but it was tough.  Interesting read - I just love reading about gymnastics - I remember reading a biography of Nadia Comaneche when I was a kid.  Living vicariously I suppose.

elimar86861

I read Future Shock (Alvin Toffler) in the 1970's and re-read it recently because, now, after all this time, I find myself suffering from it.  I don't read many current books because I am at a point where I just want to re-read some old favorites one more time.  I kind of feel like reading In Watermelon Sugar (Richard Brautigan) again. 

kltb04, I DID read the Keith Richards autobiography, but loaned it out to someone who couldn't get through it either.  I liked it well enough, especially the remembrances of the Nellcote rehearsals for Exile.  The way he spins it, the tales are totally self-agrandizing; but it's Keith, afterall, so how could it be otherwise.

IndigoMont11

I do still remember Dominique Moceanu's floor routine from 1996 - would you believe it?  Her music was "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".  Talk about living vicariously, lol.

IndigoMont11

Finished The Constant Princess the other night. I had wanted to read it to get a sense of what Catherine of Aragon was like when she was a princess in Spain, and before she married Henry VIII. I'd not realized she was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, and while the book is historical fiction, the author did good research on the Alhambra and on other things about Catherine as a younger gitl and woman. I'll have to do a little digging of my own, because while I knew she had been married to Henry's older brother first and then widowed, and married Henry claiming the other marriage had never been consummated, I'm wondering if it is really true that she rode to war with English troops against the Scots.



On the other hand, while from the book Catherine was a very intelligent and sympathetic character, and at least was spared the fate of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, her eventual ruin was almost as bad. From the book even more than the history I already knew, it seems that she brought a great deal to the English royal famiy and political scene, and she ended up devalued and exiled. Most of the other books are similar, like The Other Boleyn Girl, in that reading them makes me understand the puppet games and intrigue of the times, but also makes me want to punch out those rottem men for the women's sake. Interesting but depressing.



If you saw The Other Boleyn Girl and The Tudors, I'll bet The Constant Princess would interest you. I also recommend The Red Queen and The White Queen, also by Philippa Gregory, about the two women at the end of The Wars of the Roses, who were instrumental in joining the houses of York and Lancaster, and founding the Tudor dynasty.

Blessings2011

I, too, am a voracious reader, and usually I'm in the process of reading two or three books simultaneously. (One in the bathroom, one in bed at night...)

I got a Kindle, and downloaded just about every free book I could find. Most of them weren't worth it at all. Occasionally I'd get "promotional" books, where they were trying to push new authors, and selling the books for cheap.

Then I got my iPad, and could download books onto it if I wanted to, but haven't started yet.

Where do I still get my books? Thrift stores! I'll get sacks and sacks of books for under $10, read them in hours, then donate them back to our local hospice thrift shop.

Even when we go on vacation, we have our list of thrift stores and used book places.

I bought my electronic readers in order to save space...but do I? Noooooo!!!!!

I started to make a list of the books I'd read, but it was too time-consuming, as I go through books so fast.

lostinmo

Blessings- I like to pick up books at garage sales and our thrift store sells them 10 for a $1. So between me and my MIL we can usually find 10.